“What kind of man is this, who feels a need to lower his own country?”
Chickens Coming to Roost in the White House | National Review Online
Chickens are coming home to roost for Barack Obama, both at home and overseas. When he first entered the White House, to worldwide acclaim, and backed by huge majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, he could do whatever he wanted — and could do no wrong, in the eyes of the mainstream media. People believed whatever he said, whether it was about how he would cut the federal deficit in half during his first term or about how people could keep their current insurance and their current doctor under Obamacare, which would also insure millions more people and yet somehow lower the costs at the same time.
If he could have done these things, it is hard to know what he could have done for an encore. Walking on water would have been an anticlimax.
Of course he did none of these things. President Obama added more to the national debt in his first term than President Bush did in both his terms put together. As for Obamacare, which has not yet fully taken effect, health-care costs have already gone up, and many people’s hours of work have already gone down, as employers seek to escape the huge costs of Obamacare by hiring part-time workers, who are exempt.
As for foreign policy, President Obama began by betraying a preexisting American commitment to supply allies in Eastern Europe with an anti-missile-defense system. These nations had risked the wrath of Russia by allying themselves with the United States, but Obama blithely talked about pressing the “reset button,” as he flew off to Moscow to try to cut a deal with the Russians behind their back.
His boorish behavior toward one of our oldest and most important allies, Britain, and his insulting behavior toward the prime minister of our staunchest ally in the Middle East, Israel, were more of the same.
If he could have done these things, it is hard to know what he could have done for an encore. Walking on water would have been an anticlimax.
Of course he did none of these things. President Obama added more to the national debt in his first term than President Bush did in both his terms put together. As for Obamacare, which has not yet fully taken effect, health-care costs have already gone up, and many people’s hours of work have already gone down, as employers seek to escape the huge costs of Obamacare by hiring part-time workers, who are exempt.
As for foreign policy, President Obama began by betraying a preexisting American commitment to supply allies in Eastern Europe with an anti-missile-defense system. These nations had risked the wrath of Russia by allying themselves with the United States, but Obama blithely talked about pressing the “reset button,” as he flew off to Moscow to try to cut a deal with the Russians behind their back.
His boorish behavior toward one of our oldest and most important allies, Britain, and his insulting behavior toward the prime minister of our staunchest ally in the Middle East, Israel, were more of the same.
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